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Research Proposal: Accounting for Anchoring Bias on User Labeling in Machine Learning Systems

(This post describes my proposed final research project for MAS.S62 Interactive Machine Learning at the MIT Media Lab.) Description Many interactive machine learning systems ask users to make sequences of judgments while training. For example, recommender systems often prompt the … Continue reading

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Random Decision Forest’s Interaction Affordances

(This post responds to an assignment for MAS.S62 Interactive Machine Learning at the MIT Media Lab to analyze the input and output channels of a machine learning algorithm for their potential as affordances for interaction.) When examined for its potential … Continue reading

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An ofxaddons.com Update

James George and I just ran an epic update to ofxaddons.com, the site we run that indexes extensions and libraries for OpenFrameworks. With the recent version switchover of the Github API, our addon detection code had gotten out of date … Continue reading

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Teaching Makematics at ITP

I’m proud to announce that I’ll be teaching a class a NYU ITP next semester. The class grew out of my work on Makematics; it’s called “Makematics: Turning Computer Science Research into Creative Tools”. Here’s the full description from the … Continue reading

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Paperless Post Tech Talk

A couple of weeks ago I delivered the inaugural tech talk at Paperless Post. I was invited by Paperless Post CTO Aaron Quint who’s been a friend for a long while. Aaron asked me to talk about my work with … Continue reading

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The Era of Big VC is Over

The US venture capital industry is a transient epiphenomenon built upon the greatest bull market in the history of capitalism. — William Janeway, Warburg Pincus The venture capital industry underwent an epochal expansion around the year 2000 in the wake … Continue reading

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